More People Snipping Land Lines for Cell Phones
It used to be that just about every home in America had a landline telephone. Now with the acceleration in popularity of mobile devices, many people are choosing to discontinue their old landline telephone service and use a cell phone as their main contact number. Not only does this save money, but it gives the consumer more freedom — especially if they are a person who moves often (now they don’t have to change their phone number each and every time they relocate).
This new group of consumers are called, “Wireless families.” They choose to use their Samsung mobile phones, Palm 650, Nokia mobile phones and other cell devices instead of traditional land lines. In most surveys, these wireless families make up about 16 percent of households, and that number is continually growing. In fact, many teens and children who are exclusively wireless is about 10%. That’s 1 in 10 kids with mobile devices that will never know the constraints of a traditional land line.
People that use Nokia mobile, Palm 850, Razr, Samsung mobile devices and other wireless devices also enjoy a lot more features than an old phone. They get GPS, games, texting, movies and mobile internet. That’s something old phones could NEVER do. Plus, telemarketers still call people on the old landlines, while mobile users typically only get advertisements from their service provider. As Samsung mobile devices, nokia mobile devices and others continue to become more like computers than phones, the old landlines will continue to decline. But more than anything, it has to do with age. Just as rotary phones went the way of the dinosaurs, so too, perhaps, will traditional land lines.
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